I've already linked to posts about "Pit to distress" from Nursing Birth (make sure you read it!) and Jill at Unnecesarean . As...

A few days ago, Jill of Keyboard Revolutionary wrote about the practice of " pit to distress" --a term for aggressive administrat...

A poignant account of a new father who insists that his daughter, born via cesarean after more than 24 hours of unmedicated labor, remain w...

A new study from the University of California has confirmed an association between pollution levels and prematurity and other birth complica...

For the two weeks that we've been visiting family in Alberta, we've already noticed changes in Dio . He looks bigger, he has more co...

If you gave birth to a breech baby, or if your baby was breech at some point during pregnancy, we would like to invite you to participate in...

A few days ago Jill at Unnecesarean linked to an article in the Brisbane Times , Maternity Leave--Or Reprieve? . It discusses our recent cul...

It's Canada Day tomorrow and this little town has been getting ready in full force. Flags are everywhere. I even saw one house with a hu...

Amy Romano, a CNM who blogs at Lamaze's Science & Sensibility, has written a great response to two New Yorker a rticles by physi...

From Robin Guy, co-founder of the Coalition for Breech Birth : Dear friends of CBB, Well, here we are. Women's voices are finally getti...

Dio turned two months old yesterday. I'm still a bit stunned that I've already given birth and now all of a sudden I have a chubby 2...

As shallow or trivial as it might sound, I need to admit something: I am feeling dumpy and frumpy in my postpartum body right now. For the f...

After the release of their documentary The Business of Being Born in 2007, Ricki Lake and Abby Epstein wrote a book called Your Best Birth:...

In honor of Father's Day, I wanted to post the birth stories of Zari and Dio , as told in Eric's journal. He has been--and is--a wo...

We arrived in the Great White North this evening after 14 hours of traveling (2 car rides, 1 shuttle bus ride, 2 plane rides, a 2-hour layov...

There's a lot of conversations about the new SOGC guidelines on vaginal breech birth. If you'd like to read the complete text of th...

The Society of Obstetricians & Gynecologists of Canada ( SOGC ) has made a dramatic about-face this week. In a reversal of its earlier p...

We've hit a few milestones, some big and some small, this week. Zari stopped wearing diapers and has been accident-free in her new unde...